Yao Ming Quotes

First of all, I'm not buff enough. I got pushed away from the basket. And even when I didn't, I couldn't get anyone to throw me a pass.

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• In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Age
  • Internet
  • Talk

• The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.

  

  Karl Lehmann
  • Faith
  • Christian
  • Spiritual

• Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a thread of duplicity. In every villain, there is another side to consider: We don't have to like him or her, but we are compelled to think about motivation.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Think
  • Hero
  • motivation

• You think you choose the subjects of your books. But sometimes, in ways you don't know, the books choose you.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Think
  • Know
  • Choose

• Being innovative in your philanthropy allows you to stride forward in your giving journey; you can marry your mind and heart to turn charity into lasting impact; and you can become more ambitious in your giving.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Giving

• What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • World
  • Wind
  • Smoke

• I love working with women.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Women
  • Love
  • Working

• I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • America
  • Proud
  • Propaganda

• Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • City
  • Place
  • Mental

• On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Think
  • Political

• Fine art is really something I want to get into.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Art
  • Want
  • Something

• Acting gives me an adrenalin rush I don't get from anything else.

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • Me
  • Acting
  • Anything

• I love traditions. I mean, cultural ones.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Mean
  • Traditions
  • Cultural

• When I became governor, spending actually increased 28 percent my first term. Revenue increased 42 percent my first term without raising anybody's taxes. We did it because we had more taxpayers with more taxable income. That's how you get the revenue up. We did that without raising anybody's taxes.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • Up
  • You
  • First

• I first saw Walter Hill's second film, 'The Driver,' as a teenager, late at night on the BBC, quite possibly sitting too close to the telly. Given that this 1978 slice of neo-noir takes place almost entirely in the dark streets of a deserted downtown L.A., it's really a perfect midnight movie.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Movie
  • Night
  • Perfect

• I was always cycling for my dad. Then the coaches got bigger, and my results got better. Suddenly, the responsibility grows, and I'm doing it for somebody else, I'm doing it for a programme; I'm doing it for the country. I'm doing it for, like, everybody.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Country
  • Dad
  • Responsibility

• I learned what looked good on my petite frame, and to this day, I'm a great bargain shopper.

  

  Natalie Morales
  • Good
  • Great
  • Day

• We are a heterogeneous society. We have to accept that. Growth has to be such that the most backward sections also benefit from it. Otherwise, it will be a very imbalanced growth.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Society
  • Growth
  • Will

• What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Red
  • Wine

• I don't understand when people are being greedy or mean, when they say who should get what, when they get control of someone else's life.

  

  Alek Wek
  • People
  • Life
  • Control

• I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Good
  • Great
  • Writing

• I'm such a fan of the Obamas in general, and I love how dignified and charismatic and how intelligent they are. They are so warm and kind and encouraging, especially of young people, and I really love seeing that.

  

  Sara Bareilles
  • People
  • Intelligent
  • Encouraging

• The value that some analysts put on revenue vs. what they put on profit is out of whack. If you can grow real cash earnings, that's 80% of what you ought to do, and the revenue component is 20%.

  

  Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
  • Real
  • Value

• First of all, I'm not buff enough. I got pushed away from the basket. And even when I didn't, I couldn't get anyone to throw me a pass.

  

  Yao Ming